County: Kildare Site name: KILTEEL
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 20:7(01–05) Licence number: 05E0681
Author: Emma Devine, for Insight Archaeology, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny.
Site type: No archaeological significance
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 698309m, N 721269m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.232703, -6.527452
An assessment was undertaken at a proposed development area which lies adjacent to a gatehouse, which is also a national monument, and a complex consisting of ecclesiastical remains, a church and graveyard, a preceptory, an earthwork and a cross, and an earthwork thought to have been a section of the Pale.
There was no clear difference between the stratigraphy encountered in the six trenches excavated, save for the presence of the small linear feature/boundary located in Trench 1. Cartographic sources do not record this field boundary, making it either very late or very early in date. The recovery of a piece of white ware from its fill suggests a later 19th–20th-century date and anecdotal evidence from the landowner, who remembers his father constructing the boundaries during the last century, supports this evidence. It was probably constructed along with the other field boundaries shown on the OS Rural Place Map of 1997, as it was not shown on the second-edition 6-inch OS map of 1870–2 (the most recently published). The depth of the topsoil varied slightly throughout the site.
